The Oil Drum: Critiquing the 2006 Megaprojects Report

The ASPO-USA folks requested me to offer my opinions on Chris Skrebowski et al’s 2006 megaproject report, and I had an interesting email debate with them today. Here are my thoughts on it, now that I’ve had a (middle of the night) chance to study it.

The executive summary is that while I think this report

* was a good deal of work and is a considerable service to the public
* has some improvements from prior “bottom-up” reports

nonetheless, to no-one’s surprise perhaps,

* I don’t think this methodology is reliable at this time.
* I disagree with the conclusions of the report.

Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.